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Show 140 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON BIRDS [Feb. 5, for this wonderful bird. Since we examined this skin, Mr. C. Buckley has sent an example of Steatornis from Sarayacu on the Rio Bobo-naza, a confluent of the Pastaza, in Ecuador, thus connecting Prof. Steere's Peruvian locality with those hitherto known for Steatornis in Columbia and Venezuela. 15. PICUMNUS SCLATERI, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 327. W e are inclined to refer a skin of a Picumnus, obtained at Tumbez in December 1872, to this recently described species, although in this difficult group an actual comparison of specimens is necessary to establish identity. Prof. Steere's specimen is marked "male," but agrees with a bird described as a female by M . Taczanowski in having the head spotted with white. If, therefore, the sexes are rightly determined in both cases, it would seem that this species differs from most of its congeners in not having the head spotted with red or yellow in the male sex. 16. CHLORONERPES SEDULUS. Campias sedulus, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. iv. p. 153. Chloronerpes sedulus, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 99. A " male" of this little known species was obtained by Prof. Steere at Obidos, on the Amazons. Sclater's collection contains a single female from Guiana; and the type described by Cabanis and Heine was of the same sex. The male, which is hitherto undescribed, differs from the female in having the feathers of the cap terminated with red instead of yellow. The species is easily recognizable by the large well-defined pale yellow spots on the wing-coverts. Prof. Steere notes the eyes as " blood-red." 17. COLAPTES RUPICOLA (Lafr. et D'Orb.). Golaptes rupicola, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 101. A " female " skin from Cajamarca, which we refer to this species, differs slightly from skins obtained in Southern Peru by Mr. Whitely (see P. Z. S. 1869, p. 154) in having the spots on the chest produced laterally into narrow transverse bands. The rump and lower surface are likewise rather deeper in colour. The label states that the bird is found " in the Upper Andes, among the rocks ; nests in mud walls ; eyes sulphur yellow." 18. CAPITO STEERII, sp. nov. (Plate XII.) Supra Icetb viridis, pileo vivide coccineo, nucha cceruled; subtus pallide limonaceo-flavus, plaga gulari et altera subpectorali coccineis; ventre viridi fluvoque variegato; rostro plumbe-sceute, tomiis et apice flavis ; pedibus obscure plumbeis : long. tota 5*8, alee 2*8, caudce 1*8, tarsi OS. Hab. Moyobamba, Peru (Steere). |
